It was like taking a beloved person to the airport and returning to an empty house. I miss the people. I miss the world.

Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. author. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," by Leslie Garis (August 2, 1992).
On leaving the last section of her latest novel, The Volcano Lover, at her publisher's office.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obsene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.